“Backwardsism” and True Progress
An article at Rorate Cæli is titled Francis confirms his hatred for the Latin Mass and it quotes him as saying: "I certainly know that the Council is still being applied. It takes a century for a Council to be assimilated, they say. And I know the resistance to its decrees is terrible. There is incredible support for restorationism, what I call indietrismo (backwardness)." I too used to say things like, "It takes a hundred years for a Council to be implemented correctly." But now I see this doesn't apply to Vatican II. It only applies to dogmatic councils that were established to dissipate confusion, not seminate it. We have [...]